Vancouver 2010 Olympics

The XXI winter Olympics took place in the Canadian city of Vancouver British Columbian between the 12^th and the 28^th of February 2010. After the end of this event, Vancouver has organized the X Paralympics Winter Games from the 12th to the 21st of March of this year.

The cost of the Games is estimated at approximately $ 1,400 million Canadian dollars.2632 athletes signed up initially for the Olympic Games, surpassing the mark set by his predecessor, Turin 2006.

Fifteen winter sports were included in the calendar of the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. Eight of these fifteen sports were classified as "ice sports”, three sports as "alpine" and the last four as "Nordic".

82 national Olympic committees were able to provide athletes for Vancouver Olympics, surpassing the mark set in 2006 with 80 countries. In these games, Colombia, Ghana, Cayman Islands, Pakistan and Peru participated for the first time, while Montenegro and Serbia sent its first teams as independent nations after the end of its unified team. In addition, seven countries that did not participate in Turin 2006 participated in Vancouver 2010: Costa Rica, Kenya, The U.S. Virgin Islands, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Thailand and Venezuela. The most important was Luxembourg, a country with a long Olympic tradition. Two athletes in alpine skiing had to retire because one did not meet the requirements established by the local committee and the other was injured.